Dive summary:

• An appeals court has ruled that at least in the Peachtree State, contractors can get judgments for all the money they believe a developer owes them, but the costs of all manner of general conditions – copying, computers, tools, blueprints, barricades and many more – are out of the running when  it comes to filing a mechanics lien on the property.
• The only things that count toward a lien, the Georgia judges said, are materials, labor and services that effectively have become part of the physical project and cannot be taken back.
• The decision in the case called 182 Tenth, LLC v. Manhattan Construction Company is only for Georgia, but it raises a point that contractors everywhere should be aware of in tracking and claiming costs.

From the article:

From the contractor’s point of view, especially those who do not self-perform much of the project work, the decision substantially lessens the value of liens in Georgia. ...